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Loading... A Cold and Lonely Place (original 2013; edition 2013)by Sara J. Henry
Work InformationA Cold and Lonely Place by Sara J. Henry (2013)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I see only two possibilities: (1) the author has managed to never see the writing advice about “show, don’t tell” or (2) the author decided to throw that advice to the wind and go her own way. No matter, because the mind-numbing narrative combined with the reader’s flat voice had me hunting for the stop-button a mere 5% into the audiobook. This was a new author for me, but not one I am likely to try again. I'm not a mystery fan, but enjoy the occasional psychological thriller, especially with twists (unreliable narrators, etc,). I also love books set in cold and lonely places, so when I saw this available in my library I thought I'd try it. It was compulsively readable, I'll give it that. But all the red herrings were irritating, as the plot marched along to a pretty unremarkable resolution. And please, Sara Henry, give me a break from all the descriptions of meals eaten! About every few pages, our heroine is starving, or has a steaming cup of tea .... Boring. 3.5 stars. This book was good but had the misfortune of being the first book I read after finishing [bc:Fall of Giants|7315573|Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy #1)|Ken Follett|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1311704936s/7315573.jpg|8842841]. If I had read this book at another time, I probably would have been more impressed with it. There is nothing wrong with it, it was well written, the characters are likable and the storyline was interesting, it just was in the giant (ha- get it? giant (fall of giants:)) shadow of such a great book. Nothing offensive at all in this book, pretty benign. A good read. ARC from publisher. no reviews | add a review
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"Freelance writer Troy Chance is snapping photos of the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival ice palace when the ice-cutting machine falls silent. Encased in the ice is the shadowy outline of a body--a man she knows. One of her roommates falls under suspicion, and the media descends. Troy's assigned to write an in-depth feature on the dead man, who, it turns out, was the privileged son of a wealthy Connecticut family who had been playing at a blue collar life in this Adirondack village. And the deeper Troy digs into his life and mysterious death, the murkier things become. After the victim's sister comes to town and a string of disturbing incidents unfold, it's clear someone doesn't want the investigation to continue. Troy doesn't know who to trust" -- Cover verso. No library descriptions found. |
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I am not generally a mystery reader so this isn't a book I'd normally pick up in my own. I think the feeling of small town New York comes across well but I feel like something about the characters that seems off to me. Too many details that add nothing for me (like the lunch menu) but not enough information to make me care about them as any more than cardboard cutouts.
The plot resolves in an interesting way but seemed rushed to me compared to the slow way the story spun out in parts one and two.
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